Similarly to my post about the double rainbow, this happened a couple of weeks ago.  I went to enjoy the latter part of the Gion Matsuri, one of the most famous and important festivals in Kyoto.  At the Koiyama Float, I received a chimaki, generally, a kind of rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves and steamed, but here, a kind of talisman with a solemn feeling.  The symbol of this float comes from a well-known legend from the ancient China. According to it, there was a torrent upstream of the Huang He River.  If a carp succeeded to climb up this rapid flow, it would change into a dragon.  A story of a carp becoming a dragon is very encouraging for me, mysterious and profound as well.  For, my mother, my first calligraphy teacher and my valued friend are all born under the signof the dragon.

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二重の虹の件と同様、これも２〜３週間前のことですが、祇園祭の後祭で、鯉山に行って、粽をいただいてきました。

鯉が龍になるとはとても勇気付けられるお話ですし、何かしら深いご縁も感じます。書の師も母も大事な友人も辰年生まれです。

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